Philips is currently one of the largest patent owners in the world, with 3,000 new patents and an annual R&D expenditure of $3 billion. Philips earns up to 500 million euros a year from the licensing of CD-R and DVD, 70% of which comes from China. On September 1 day, 2003, seven companies (time warner Inc., Hitachi, IBM, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Toshiba and JVC for short) began to license the core patents of DVD audio and recordable DVD products worldwide. In addition, seven Japanese and American companies also indicated that while * * * granted the patent right to use DVD recorders, they began to collect patent fees from June 65438+ 10, 2004.
At the same time, the charging range of DVD6C is expanded again, which will include drives and media. Specific products include DVD- audio, DVD random access memory, DVD-RW and DVD-R. These products will face the highest patent fee of 8 dollars each, while the patent fee for DVD audio discs will be reduced to 0.05 dollars each from June 65438+1 October 2004, and the patent fees for other products will be the same as the patent fee standards promulgated earlier. In addition, the patent fee for the DVD burner will be 4% of the selling price or $6, whichever is higher.